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Where to Stay in Meaux, Île-de-France
Meaux is a historic town on the Marne east of Paris, an old cathedral city famed for its Brie cheese and its mustard.
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Where to stay in Meaux
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Where you stay in Meaux turns on the old town or the riverside. The streets around the cathedral keep the museum, the market, and the ramparts within a walk, and staying downtown suits anyone here for the old city. The cathedral rises over the square.
Cheese fills the market stalls. Down toward the Marne and the canal, the old town gives way to the riverbanks, the towpaths, and the wheat plain. A room by the water trades the streets for the river walks, the quiet banks, and the fields of Brie beyond.
The Marne loops past the edge. Stay downtown for the cathedral, or by the river for the walks. The old town lies a short way in.
About Meaux
Meaux is the cheese town of the Marne.
What is Meaux known for?
On a loop of the river Marne in the wheat country east of Paris, it was an old seat of bishops, and it keeps a great Gothic cathedral where the famous preacher Bossuet once held the pulpit, the mild Brie cheese that took the town's name, a wholegrain mustard of its own, and the memory of the first great battle of the Marne fought nearby. The old town rings the cathedral. The wheat plain runs around.
What are the main landmarks in Meaux?
The cathedral of Meaux rises over the river Marne. The tall Gothic church of pale stone, its single great tower standing above the old town, looks out over the river, the emblem of the city, by the water. A bishop's palace stands beside it.
The old palace of the bishops, now the Bossuet museum, keeps its gardens by the cathedral, while the ramparts, the cheese cellars, and the great war museum mark the country around Meaux.
What is the history of Meaux?
Meaux was a bishop's city of old France. A Roman town grew on the Marne, and by the middle ages it was a walled cathedral city and the seat of a bishop, its great church rising over the river. Bishops ruled the town.
The most famous of them, Bossuet, the eagle of Meaux, preached here to the court of the king and lies buried in the cathedral he served. Cheese carried its name far. The mild soft cheese of the meadows around, the Brie of Meaux, grew famous across France and beyond as a king among cheeses, and the town made a wholegrain mustard prized at the royal table.
War came to the Marne. In 1914 the first great battle of the Marne was fought in the fields near Meaux, turning back the invading armies before Paris, and the town keeps a vast war memorial and museum from those days. The cathedral still crowns the town.
Meaux keeps its cathedral and its cheese on the Marne.
Where is Meaux?
Meaux lies in the Brie country of northern France, on the river Marne east of Paris. The town sits in a great loop of the Marne where it winds through the chalk wheat plateau of Brie, ringed by fields of grain and beet, with low wooded hills rising beyond the river. Wheat fields spread around.
The river loops through the town.
What is the climate of Meaux?
Meaux has a mild, damp oceanic climate. Cool summers and cold winters cross the plain, with grey rainy weather through much of the year and some frost and snow in winter. Grey skies hang over the fields.
The river mists in the cold.
How do you get to Meaux?
Meaux lies east of Paris, on the Marne and the rail line into the city. Trains and roads run to it down the Marne from Paris and out across the Brie plain, and the canal of the Ourcq passes by. Lanes ring the cathedral close.
Paris lies west down the river.
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Updated September 2026